1. Make any changes suggested on your short story. This final draft should be PERFECT, completely error-free. (Worth 8/10 of your weekly points.)
2. Write a brief reading journal about your book. Please be sure to discuss what is appealing about your book. Consider audience the author is writing for and who you think would most appreciate this book, and WHY. (Worth 2/10 of your weekly points.)
These videos are intended to accompany your notes for What is Human Nature?
2. National Geographic's Feral Children series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.
3. Nova's "Wild Child" about Isolated Child: Genie Wiley.
4. Institutionalized Children: Romanian Orphans.
5. Deprived Animals: Watch a video of Harlow's monkeys.
Play the LawCraft game to put yourself in the shoes of a congressmember as you choose a bill to support and attempt to get enough votes to pass your bill along. You DO NOT need to register to play.
Revise your short story with the notes that your teacher emailed to you. Please email your revised draft to be edited next week. This task is worth 8/10 points for this week. For the two remaining points, email a reading journal in which you discuss a specific passage (quotation) from your book. Copy down the passage, and write why it stood out to you both in regard to the book/life and how it stands out stylistically as good writing.
Watch the following videos. For the first video, explain why you think Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech was so effective. Then for each of the videos 2-8, write down two facts ANDone opinion sentence each:
"I Have a Dream" (this is just a short clip from the whole speech)
4/9-4/13 (no school Friday, but you may turn in "on time" on Friday)
Choose
one of your story ideas (one of the ones that you wrote a descriptive paragraph). Write a first draft for that story. It should contain the following elements:
·A
conflict (person vs. person, person vs. nature, person vs. society, and/or
person vs. self)
·Beginning
(exposition), middle (rising action & climax), and end (falling action
& resolution)
·Sensory
descriptions (imagery) of setting and at least one character
1.Read
the following imagery-rich passage,
paying attention to details that make you see,
hear, smell, taste, and/or feel that which is being described:
“The
hot July sun beat relentlessly down, casting an orange glare over the farm
buildings, the fields, the pond. Even the usually cool green willows bordering
the pond hung wilted and dry. The low buzzing of mosquitoes hung about us. Our sun-baked backs ached for relief. We
quickly pulled off our sweaty clothes and plunged into the pond, but the tepid
water only stifled us, and we soon climbed onto the brown, dusty bank. Our
parched throats longed for something cool—a tart strawberry ice, a tall frosted
glass of sweetly sour lemonade.
“We
pulled our clothes out of the crackling underbrush, the sharp briars pulling at
our heavy, wet clothes. We wriggled into
our damp jeans and ambled toward the watermelon patch. As we began to cut open
the nearest melon, we could smell the pungent skin mingling with the dusty odor
of the dry earth. Suddenly, the melon gave way with a crack, revealing the
deep, pink sweetness inside.”
2.Then, list ten examples of phrases that show imagery & classify them
by the sense that they appeal to (sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch).
3.Choose your top THREE story ideas from last week. For each
of those three story ideas, write a descriptive paragraph that focuses in on a
character or a setting within that story idea, using imagery. Think about using multiple senses. You may also want to include some similes or metaphors to enhance your descriptions. For more tips, watch the YouTube video above.
4.Write one more reading journal entry that focuses in on the author’s craft (what does your author do well? How can you use that in your own writing?).
